Local, International Peacemakers to be Honored on 9/11
While a hateful pastor and congregation in Florida plan to burn Qurans on Saturday, September 11, 2010, the Greater Lansing Peace Community is planning to honoring two notable peacemakers, one from Lansing and one from India. Father Peter Dougherty of the Lansing-based Michigan Peace Team and Shri Lavanam Goparaju of Atheist Center, India, will be honored [...]
Nagasaki Native to Discuss Nuclear War, Movie
Nagasaki native Yoko Koisumi will be the guest speaker at the Capitol Area District Library (CADL) Downtown Branch following the Peace Education Center’s community showing of the documentary, “White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” The movie will start at 6:45 p.m. tonight, August 9, 2010, in the library auditorium and is [...]
Interview with Peacemaker Ann Francis
Please see below our Spring 2010 Interview with a Peacemaker: Ann Francis You can read the accompanying article about Ann in our most recent newsletter by reading it here: PEC Spring 2010 Newsletter.
Tom Rico Interviews Peter Dougherty
PEC Co-Chair Tom Rico sat down for a long chat with peacemaker Father Peter Dougherty this month. Among other topics, they talked about raising social consciousness in the community. Father Dougherty this year was awarded the “International Ghandi” award–officially called the International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India. You can see our post about [...]
Rev. Jesse Jackson in Lansing
The Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at a rally in Lansing, Michigan on June 1, 2009, the day that General Motors announced its bankruptcy plan. Watch video of Jackson’s speech below.
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